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ill-fated
1. She could see him now … jerkily, returning to his seat at the table … and then, he’d just sort of imploded mentally, as though Andy’s defection was the terminal straw in the train of disasters which comprised this ill-fated project
2. verse seemed to involve the return voyage of some ill-fated hero following the sack of Troy
3. Hell, he had not even been born when Chris first arrived on this planet as captain of the ill-fated Elysian
4. Carter was still holding her ground, but everybody knew she was ill-fated
5. Whatever the so-called political or social ―realities‖ that engendered this ill-fated decision by the present Administration and its congressional allies, notwithstanding the program‘s perceived failings, this bill sets a troubling precedent for other (established) laws that might otherwise be ignored in the manner of ―break it now, fix it later‖ approach to law ―enforcement
6. His son was sent on an ill-fated campaign into the jungle shortly afterward
7. the only ones left on the planet, turned out to be ill-fated?
8. That way it ended the misfortune of my wretched hand, which continued carrying still its ill-fated load
9. 2 One day after the evening meal Jesus and the young Philistine strolled down by the sea, and Gadiah, not knowing that this "scribe of Damascus" was so well versed in the Hebrew traditions, pointed out to Jesus the ship landing from which it was reputed that Jonah had embarked on his ill-fated voyage to Tarshish
10. As Conan sat with his back against the poop-rail, while the old shaman attended to the cuts on his hands and limbs, the cargo of the ill-fated Argus was quickly shifted aboard the Tigress and stored in small cabins below deck
11. "Right on," said Travis, and at an almost empty Greek restaurant in North Vancouver, illuminated only by old, yellow candles stuck into empty wine bottles, he told her of Colonel Orlov and his ill-fated expedition and how the enormous treasure had disappeared somewhere off the west coast
12. which Stallman confesses to wanting to name the ill-fated GNU
13. I mumbled for meaning, that morning before I shipped on that ill-fated voyage, and I got an all-consuming response, quite literally
14. The stranger’s letter, which no one read, was left to the mercy of the moths on the shelf where Fernanda had forgotten her wedding ring on occasion and there it remained, consuming itself in the inner fire of its bad news as the solitary lovers sailed against the tide of those days of the last stages, those impenitent and ill-fated times which were squandered on the useless effort of making them drift toward the desert of disenchantment and oblivion
15. The atmosphere was jovial and receptive, despite the pending inclement weather, as if the guests were oblivious to the change, much like the passengers on the ill-fated Titanic as it sank and lured them to their deaths
16. traveling on the ill-fated liner steered me toward a life journey that I
17. The other news was that five separate groups of actors in five separate locations had been questioned by the Teoti’s soldiers and for food and drink, had told what they knew of the affairs of the ill-fated Tolteca
18. The name of the ill-fated jet had special meaning for Tanganyika Greeks who were photographed regularly, every seven years by John ‘The Comet’ whose return was as regular as any in the night sky
19. The town, centre for the ill-fated groundnut scheme which then became the school for European children, had again metamorphosed into the main base camp for insurgency operations against the white-ruled regimes in Southern Africa
20. feeling, perhaps for having been part of the ill-fated card game with
21. money from his victim in return for being swindled at that ill-fated poker
22. Perhaps the most powerful and tragic demonstration of the influence of this giant battleship came in the summer of 1942, when the mere threat of her being at sea was the direct cause of the dispersal and near-annihilation of the ill-fated Convoy PQ-17
23. Moon never got over the disaster at Slapton Sands and because of what was officially termed "combat-related stress," due to the ill-fated Exercise Tiger; he put a revolver in his mouth and shot himself
24. In 1989, Nintendo released the Game Boy, the first handheld console since the ill-fated Microvision ten years before
25. Some were crying for their ill-fated lives
26. ” Sunena broke down after telling her daughter’s ill-fated life
27. “There are several eyewitness accounts of Da’oe: Pedro Lopez de San Juan’s ill-fated expedition, reports from Californio gold prospectors, and Gulbrand Göttfriedsen’s aerial mapping of the Sierra Nevada
28. Toronto and worked at AV Roe till the ill-fated ARROW project was closed
29. a great Hitler admirer had no intention of making it easy for television crews to expose his admiration of the ill-fated “Third Reich”
30. been on duty at the ill-fated party
31. “Coming back to the ill-fated girl, the cousin who rescued me from the embarrassment of my life I told you about, abhorred the eligible bachelor in equal measure for his conceited ways, was not prepared to voice her apprehension lest her dissent should be construed as an envy for the girl’s glorious fortune-in-the-making; well I too kept mum for I knew that I wouldn’t have been deemed as a viable alternative by the mother of the bride and so, sadly for others’ decency of silence and her mother’s blinkers of falsity, the daughter had to suffer him as her man to her lifelong dismay
32. plush seats, they quickly forgot the ill-fated poor immigrants who
33. a story of ill-fated choices, mutated genes and easily broken bones that is rapidly reaching its necessary crescendo
34. “It all happened on that ill-fated day
35. The only redeeming aspect of money tending are the ill-fated, but nobel, attempts at the domestication of the herded packs it tends to wild into by taxing them, i
36. for an influx of visitors based on a universal interest in the great ill-fated ship The Titanic built in the old ship yard at Belfast’s Harland and Wolff
37. Belfast built ship, ill-fated or not was to forefront of 20th century technology and contemporary engineering
38. disease that crops up in our land, the puzzled pigs and its ill-fated
39. the birth of Christianity and Judaism, and the so-called Jewish wars which were the ill-fated revolts
40. Two months after announcing his candidacy, CBS news interviewer Roger Mudd brings up that ill-fated night during a televised interview
41. Without her father’s backing, Maureen’s Senate bid is ill-fated, ending when she finishes fifth in a field of thirteen candidates during the primary election
42. * Scott, of course: "The son of an ill-fated sire, and the father of a yet more unfortunate family, bore in his looks that cast of inauspicious melancholy by which the physiognomists of that time pretended to distinguish those
43. occasion be induced to pronounce the names of your illustrious father or ill-fated mother
44. It was the humble castle of our naïve, ill-fated love
45. Normally this would have been the detail of the book that would have intrigued me, but it was overshadowed by my irrational obsession with the ill-fated Miyawaki place, so I stored away that particular rumination for another time
46. I sighed and crumpled the paper napkins containing the notes for my somewhat ill-fated talk
47. “We deeply resent the allegations made against our law firm by your client in his ill-fated lawsuit
48. From that night nothing has been seen of the three murderers by the police, and it is surmised at Scotland Yard that they were among the passengers of the ill-fated steamer Norah Creina, which was lost some years ago with all hands upon the Portuguese coast, some leagues to the north of Oporto
49. Here was the point, and this the means by which Maple White and his ill-fated comrade had made their ascent
50. Think only, what are my children to be? Ill-fated children, who will have to bear a stranger’s name
